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Amanda Monti, Mycelial Person
The man’s gaze and someone’s shriek mating cry violently impressed onto me. I went outside and began taking notes. I had always hoped to write sentences so sad they could free me.I wrote of the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Ian Dreiblatt
Ian Dreiblattis a poet, translator, trail mix assembler, and mixtape technician. His book forget thee is available now from ugly duckling presse, and wherever fine literature is sold. His translation...
View ArticleThe Small November: Six anti-ghazals for Phyllis Webb
(1927-2021) 1.The distance houses. Ninety-four years,deliberating Ideas, backstage with Leonard, or crafting failure, enoughuntil it, too, could sing. Hermetic sounds....
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Ongoing notes: mid-November 2021: Matthew James Weigel + Elizabeth Robinson,
Since the end of summer, I’ve felt perpetually behind, always twelve more things to accomplish for every item I actually cross off my list. Is this adulting? Am I adulting correctly?Otherwise, we’re...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Khashayar Mohammadi
Khashayar Mohammadi is a queer, Iranian born, Toronto-based Poet, Writer and Translato. He is the author of poetry Chapbooks Moe’sSkin by ZED press 2018, Dear Kestrel by knife | fork | book 2019,...
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Assiyah Jamilla Touré, AUTOWAR
their architectureunwhole, gleaning, their edges are softsanded and ground to softnessnear skinlesstheir flesh is open and wetworn past translucence hard and shining and wholeedges sharp with...
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Ongoing notes: later-mid-November 2021: Erín Moure + Jennifer Soong/Daniel Owen,
Am I already doing another one of these? Gosh, the days just swoosh by. Have you seen what’s been posting lately over at periodicities? Some pretty cool stuff, I must say, including interviews with...
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Happy Birthday, Rose!
This is what eight looks like. Happy birthday to my ridiculous, brilliant (middle) monster.
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Noah Ross
Noah Ross is a bookseller, editor, and poet based in Berkeley, CA. Noah is the author of Swell(Otis Books / Seismicity Editions, 2019) and Active Reception (Nightboat Books, 2021), an editor at Baest:...
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new from above/ground press: fifteen new/recent (September-November 2021)...
A Wolf Lake Chorus, by Phil Hall $5 ; how to count to ten, by Kevin Varrone $5 ; Whatever Feels Like Home, by Susan Rukeyser $5 ; G o n e S o u t h, by Barry McKinnon $5 ; The Northerners, by Benjamin...
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Tom Prime, Mouthfuls of Space
I Held Your Handwalked a fog over the German Club’shalf-melted January waterfront petrified by the raw-bone cheeks of god, twopolice cars idled languid as alligators under a crippled Moses-tree....
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Rebecca Salazar
Rebecca Salazar (she/they) is a writer, editor, and community organizer living on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik. Published works include sulphurtongue (McClelland & Stewart), the knife...
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Amanda Moore, Requeening
ConfessionIn the chapel of our first days,I put you to my breast again and againand let you refuse me. Half-life half-lived and with youas my witness: I have been moremother than woman. I have stayed...
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Ongoing notes: late November 2021: Heather White + Michael Boughn,
More chapbooks! Hooray for this, yes? It is good that I’m finally seeing further appear in my mailbox (although now I have a mound of them I’ve yet to get to). Stay tuned!Montreal QC: I’m struck by...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lisa Summe
Lisa Summe is the author of Say It Hurts (YesYes Books, 2021). She earned a BA and MA in literature at the University of Cincinnati, and an MFA in poetry from Virginia Tech. Her poems have appeared or...
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Maw Shein Win, Storage Unit for the Spirit House
Theater in Three Acts where are the minnowssong of gongs in mini-mall what happens to the body after soliloquymine in mottled fur coat when does the future arrivebirthmark on forehead in shape of...
View ArticleYesterday, not my photo
1.This tornado’s funnel kiss along the waters of Lake Huron.Port Albert beach: a foreign language might be strippedof borders, nothingness. The air thins, tinny. The scentof low pressure vacuum. The...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Dani Putney
Dani Putney is a queer, non-binary, mixed-race Filipinx, & neurodivergent writer originally from Sacramento, California. Salamat sa Intersectionality (Okay Donkey Press, May 2021) is their debut...
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Ongoing notes: early December 2021: Christy Davids + Nikki Reimer/Andrea...
I seem to be on a roll these days, it would seem. Chapbooks?And you are keeping an eye on what’s been going on over at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, yes? And Touch the Donkey? And...
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John Yau, Genghis Chan on Drums
O Pin Yin Sonnet (15)We’re not talking about Asians; we’re talking about ChinaIt is smart business to name a restaurant chain after a cuddly bearWho happens to be a vegetarian, but it is another...
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